Operations Manager, Ethena
Infrastructure unlocking Ethereum's potential
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Infrastructure unlocking Ethereum's potential
1-20 employees
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1-20 employees
Company mission
To provide access to trustless, globally accessible, and secure money and savings.
Role
Who you are
- Team Work: The ability to always put the team first, work cross-functionally without relying upon hierarchy or process to achieve outcomes
- Communication: Ability to clearly communicate to a spectrum different audiences, with differing knowledge of subjects, in different forums & formats
- Exchange Risk Experience: A strong background and understanding of how offshore digital asset exchanges' derivatives risk engines work & product suite
- Product Management: A proven track record of creating, coordinating, and delivering projects with clear success metrics. The ability to manage stakeholders and sell the prioritisation of initiatives to drive business outcomes is essential
- Data Analysis: Comfort with sourcing, cleaning & transforming, and communicating business insights to a broad range of internal audiences
- User Facing: Existing relationships with a wide variety of exchange users profiles, showing clear empathy for their workflows and feedback. You should be comfortable responding and engaging directly with important users in all market scenarios
What the job involves
- The Operations Manager will report to the COO and would be an integral part of the operations team. Your primary priority will be supporting the launch of an aligned exchange, which includes communicating with users, monitoring risk metrics, and collaborating with core collaborators on product development. You will be expected to work with high integrity & trust and be comfortable working in a reasonably flat organisational structure, often needing to achieve outcomes without relying heavily on process
- Become the internal point of contact of key projects and partnerships launching externally
- Contribute to, across all functions, the successful launch and management of a range of initiatives, partnerships, and features
- Be comfortable speaking with a wide variety of external users & partners across operational and commercial lines
- Assist the COO in managing existing operational approval & consensus flows
- Create & contribute to the analysis of business + market information to inform multiple functions, from trading to business development
- Be flexible to the business's needs, including taking meetings across many time zones
Our take
Ethena aims to provide accessible and permissionless dollar-denominated savings instruments to individuals beyond the United States. This begins with creating a US dollar stablecoin that operates independently of traditional financial systems, offering full collateralization and transparency.
Alongside this stablecoin, Ethena is crafting the world's first digitally native savings bond. Unlike traditional bonds tied to centralized banks, this bond token will provide an alternative savings platform for users worldwide.
This ambitious vision has attracted significant investment which will help the company propel its market presence. As Ethena strives to provide a decentralized and capital-efficient solution, it is poised to redefine the landscape of DeFi, offering a promising alternative to traditional banking systems for users globally.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2025
$30m
EARLY VC
Aug 2025
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $76m
Company HQ
Pena, Lisbon, Lisbon
Leadership
Guy Young
(Founder)Founded Ethena in early 2023. Previously worked in Investing at Cerberus Capital Management.
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